Sentences with phrase «above high estimates»

But even with the thinning crowd and the rough time slot, most of the works sold within or above their high estimates, with only four slipping below.

A whopping 95 percent of the lots sold, 74 percent of them above their high estimates.

If only in comparison to last night's $ 691.6 million contemporary sale at Christie's, the mood in the room was sleepy, with only 16 lots selling for above their high estimates, 4 lots withdrawn before the auction and 7 of the 61 offered failing to sell.

Of the 46 lots offered, 41 sold, most above their high estimates, and the sales total just exceeded the pre-auction high estimate even though the top lot, No. 19, which was illustrated on the catalogue's cover, Robert Ryman's, «Signet 20,» passed at $ 1,100,000 far below its low estimate of $ 1.5 million.

The top dozen or so lots all sold at or well - above their high estimates with many works selling for multiples of the high estimate.

84 percent of the 68 offered lots were sold and more than half of the offered lots sold above their high estimates, a remarkably statistic.

Some of the works that did sell made prices dramatically above high estimates.

Marten's works have been offered at auction on three occasions, and have sold for well above their high estimates.

The sale included four Milton Averys in quick succession — the artist most represented in the sale — and three of them jumped above their high estimate (perhaps the result of the rumor that a major museum is said to be organizing an Avery retrospective), with the tranquil beach scene White Umbrellas (1952) going for $ 1.87 million against a high estimate of just $ 700,000.

Of those that do sell, about half sell within the estimates and half sell above the high estimate.

Hirst luckily beat the stock - market crash and did sell, handsomely, to the tune of more than $ 200 million, well above the high estimate — and his dealers, among others, stand to profit by it.

We saw strong bidding, with almost half of the sold lots hammered above the high estimate and new buyers in this category at record price points.

This kind of abstraction was looking «basically unsellable,» leaving three bidders to contest instead a safer Rudolf Stingel mock wallpaper painting from 2005 — in highly commercial gold enamel — to a top price of # 386,500, just above the high estimate.

One of the sale's biggest surprises was a circa 1915 salesman's album for the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company, containing 86 hand - colored silver prints of pencils, erasers and marketing displays, which sold for $ 10,625 to an institution, above a high estimate of $ 2,500.

[9] In 2009, Night Playground (1997 — 98), a densely painted landscape painting being sold by Joel Mallin, a New York collector, went for $ 5 million at a Christie's auction in London, well above its high estimate of $ 3 million.

A new record was also established for Saul Leiter, whose atmospheric chromogenic print Waiter, Paris, 1959, sold for $ 25,000, above a high estimate of $ 9,000.

ALL THE WORLD»S A CIRCUS Christie's offered a figure - crammed 1961 work by the French Art Brut painter Jean Dubuffet, «Les Grandes Artères,» which sold for $ 23.8 million, well above its high estimate of $ 20 million.

Another interesting and rather beautiful work was Lot 173, «Piss Elegance,» a color photograph, one of an edition of four, by Andres Serrano, that sold above its high estimate fo $ 17,500.

A large painting of a woman by Jean - Baptiste Camille Corot, Lot 7, «L'italienne,» soared above its high estimate of $ 1,500,000 to sell to an American dealer for $ 2,866,000 to an American dealer.

A good, colorful Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925), Lot 270, a 15 by 20 inch solvent transfer on plastic, paper, ink and tape 1966 collage, sold for $ 25,300, far above its high estimate of $ 15,000.

The former sold for $ 556,000, way above its high estimate of $ 350,000.

Ms. Paulson described the auction as «fantastic,» noting that 27 of the 51 lots that sold went above the high estimate.

Given astounding success of Kippenberger's self - portrait selling well above its high estimate for $ 18million at Christie's sale last night, we would expect demand for his work to increase and the work to confidently sell between its estimate of $ 700,000 - $ 1,000,000 or higher.

A stong acrylic on canvas by Robert Motherwell (1915 - 1991), Lot 210, sold for $ 79,500, well above its high estimate of $ 60,000, and a nice Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) sold for $ 145,000, well above its high estimate of $ 80,000.

Other standout lots were the very strong «Self Portait as a Heel - Part Two,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988), Lot 16, shown at the top of this article, an acyrilic and oil paintstick on canvas, 1982, that sold for $ 772,500, well above its high estimate of $ 600,000; two sculptures by Agnes Martin (b. 1912), Lots 17 and 18, which sold for $ 217,000 and $ 233,500, respectively, both considerably over their respective high estimates of $ 45,000 and $ 120,000; «Broadway and 64th Street,» a very good, large oil by Richard Estes (b. 1932), that sold above its $ 300,000 high estimate for $ 354,500; Lot 31, a large canvas from his Rorschach series by Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) that more than doubled its high estimate and sold for $ 684,500; Lot 13, «Alkaline Phosphatase - Polyethelene Glycol,» by Damien Hirst (b. 1965), 1992, sold for $ 140,000 and had a high estimate of $ 80,000; and Lot 37, «a delightful large acrylic on vinyl tarpaulin by Keith Haring (1958 - 1990) that sold for $ 200,500 and had a high estimate of $ 150,000.

The leading lot was Martin Kippenberger's portrait of Pablo Picasso in his underwear selling for $ 18.6 million, above its high estimate of $ 12 million.

And on May 15, 2002, a single candle painting by Richter Gerhard Richter, entitled «Kerze,» a 35 3/8 - by - 37 3/8 - inch oil on canvas, executed in 1982, sold at Sotheby's above its high estimate for $ 3,969,500 including the buyer's premium (see The City Review article).

This year, Lot 17, «Woman in Tub,» soared above its high estimate of $ 1.2 million to sell for $ 1,711,000, including the buyer's premium as do all sales results in this article.

That result was followed close behind by David Hockney's 15 Canvas Study of the Grand Canyon (1998), which went for # 6 million ($ 7.88 million), solidly above the high estimate of # 5 million ($ 6.56 million) after a bidding from a slew of top Sotheby's specialists.

The sale began with a work by Thierry de Cordier, an artist who rarely graces the auction block; it sold for # 380,750 ($ 499,300), well above its high estimate.

Sotheby's auction, by comparison, totaled $ 158.5 million, above its high estimate of $ 152.6 million, but that sale was smaller.

Among the handful of works bought in the room, the 1924 Max Ernst painting «Le Couple (L'Accolade)» was bought by the New York dealer David Zwirner for $ 9.1 million, just above the high estimate.

Morning Light, 1974, a luminous yellow «poured painting» by Frank Bowling, reached $ 161,000, a record for the artist, above a high estimate of $ 90,000.

World auction records were set for A Four - Rotor Enigma Cipher Machine, 1944, which sold above the high estimate for $ 547,500 to an online bidder, and A Manuscript Document from the Salem Witch Trials containing the deposition of Mary Daniel, from The Eric C. Caren Collection, which sold for $ 137,500.

Carrie Mae Weems's striking triptych of gelatin silver prints, Chocolate Colored Man, 1989 - 90, was purchased by a collector for $ 68,750, above a high estimate of $ 50,000.

The portfolio, in its original blue leather case, sold for $ 23,400, above a high estimate of $ 15,000.

The top lot of the sale was an important etching by David Hockney titled The Artist and Model, 1974, which was purchased for $ 52,500, above its high estimate of $ 30,000.

Highlights included a striking portrait of Red Cloud, Oglala, 1905, which sold for $ 32,500 *, a record for the work, above a high estimate of $ 9,000.

An elegant pencil drawing by Amadeo Modigliani, Femme nue, trois quarts, debout, circa 1915, reached $ 50,000, while Francis Picabia's Sans Titre (Transparence), circa 1930s, sold for $ 40,000, above a high estimate of $ 15,000.

Empire State Building, circa 1930, a dramatic silver print by Lewis W. Hine, sold for $ 37,500, above a high estimate of $ 18,000.

The Scout, Apache, 1906, a dramatic orotone in the original frame depicting a Native American silhouetted on a horse, more than doubled its high estimate of $ 12,000 to sell for $ 27,500, a record for an orotone of the image; another orotone in its original frame, An Oasis in the Badlands, 1905, was purchased by a collector for $ 21,250, above a high estimate of $ 15,000.

Both offered lots by Roy DeCarava sold above their estimates, with the 1956 silver print Dancers earning $ 40,000, above a high estimate of $ 25,000, and setting a new auction record for the image.

Paul Gauguin's 1890 still life fetched 3.4 million pounds, above the high estimate of 2.8 million pounds.

On Tuesday «Night Playground,» his densely painted landscape from 1997 - 98 being sold by Joel Mallin, a New York collector, went for $ 5 million, well above its high estimate of $ 3 million.

Peter Doig's 1993 Night Fishing, consigned by Daniel Loeb, sold for $ 4.7 million (above its high estimate) to a collector on the phone with Russian - speaking, Ukrainian - friendly Gagosian director Victoria Gelfand.

All but one of the five paintings in the prestigious evening sales sold at prices well above the high estimate.

(The next day, at Christie's, Murillo sold a color - block painting dirtied with studio detritus for $ 197,000, also well above its high estimate.)

Alberto Giacometti's «Homme Traversant une Place par un Matin de Soleil (Man Crossing a Place for a Morning Sun)» generated 8.5 million pounds, above the high estimate of 5 million pounds.

A second work fetched $ 77,717, above a high estimate of $ 33,677.

The group's highlights included Picasso's «Composition au Minotaure (Composition Minotaur),» which sold for 10.4 million pounds, above the high estimate of 2.5 million pounds.